Your Florida Panthers take on the Vancouver Canucks! Game time at 7:30 live from Bank Atlantic Center!

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Standings

Florida:

Wins

Losses

OTL/SOL

Total Points

20

13

8

48

Vancouver:

Wins

Losses

OTL/SOL

Total Points

26

13

3

55

Injuries

Vancouver:

Player

Date Of Incident

Status

Injury

Steve Pinizzotto

2011-09-27

on injured reserve and will miss the enitre season

shoulder surgery

Aaron Volpatti

2011-12-02

on injured reserve and will miss the remainder of the regular season

to undergo shoulder surgery

David Booth

2011-12-07

on injured reserve and will miss 4-6 weeks

sprained right knee

Aaron Rome

2011-12-18

on injured reserve and is expected to miss 3-4 weeks

broken thumb

Andrew Ebbett

2012-01-08

out indefinitely

collarbone surgery

Sami Salo

2012-01-08

out indefinitely

concussion

Florida:

Player

Date Of Incident

Status

Injury

Scottie Upshall

2011-11-11

on injured reserve

upper body

Jack Skille

2011-12-17

on injured reserve

shoulder

Sean Bergenheim

2011-12-19

on injured reserve

lower body

Marco Sturm

2011-12-21

on injured reserve

head

Jose Theodore

2012-01-01

on injured reserve

right knee

Jacob Markstrom

2012-01-08

questionable for Monday's game against Vancouver

knee

Line Combinations

Vancouver:

LW

C

RW

Daniel Sedin

Henrik Sedin

Alexandre Burrows

Mason Raymond

Ryan Kesler

Chris Higgins

Manny Malhotra

Cody Hodgson

Jannik Hansen

Mike Duco

Maxim Lapierre

Dale Weise

LD

RD

Dan Hamhuis

Kevin Bieksa

Alexander Edler

Alexander Sulzer

Keith Ballard

Andrew Alberts

Florida:

LW

C

RW

Tomas Fleischmann

Stephen Weiss

Kris Versteeg

Tomas Kopecky

Shawn Matthias

Mikael Samuelsson

Mike Santorelli

Marcel Goc

Matt Bradley

Michal Repik

John Madden

Krys Barch

LD

RD

Brian Campbell

Jason Garrison

Erik Gudbranson

Ed Jovanovski

Mike Weaver

Dmitry Kulikov

Expected Starting Goaltenders

Vancouver:
Roberto Luongo

GP

W

L

OTL

GAA

SV%

SO

28

17

8

3

2.38

.917

2

VS.

Florida:
Scott Clemmensen

GP

W

L

OTL

GAA

SV%

SO

10

4

1

3

3.01

.897

1

Team Leaders

Vancouver:

W

Roberto Luongo

17

L

Roberto Luongo

8

GAA

Cory Schneider

2.21

G

Daniel Sedin

18

A

Henrik Sedin

38

+/-

Alexandre Burrows

19

PIM

Maxim Lapierre

82

Florida:

W

Jose Theodore

14

L

Jose Theodore

8

GAA

Jose Theodore

2.43

G

Kris Versteeg

17

A

Brian Campbell

30

+/-

Stephen Weiss

14

PIM

Krys Barch

50

Special Teams

Vancouver:

PP%

PP Rank

PK%

PK Rank

24.4%

1st

86.9%

5th

Florida:

PP%

PP Rank

PK%

PK Rank

18.6%

13th

81.0%

23rd

News And Notes

Quote:

“RUST IS A RELATIVE TERM. IF YOU'RE DRIVING A HIGH-END SPORTS CAR, YOU TREAT IT WITH TENDER LOVING CARE. IF YOU'RE AN F-150, YOU CAN PULL IT OUT OF THE GARAGE,...”
- Coach Kevin Dineen, on 38-year-old John Madden making his season debut after not playing since April.http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/fla

Chris Higgins, a former Panther whom the Cats traded at the deadline to, who else, the Canucks. He has found a new home in Vancouver, playing good minutes on the 2nd line with Kesler and sadly-injured Booth. Higgins was part of a major purge that saw Tallon remake the Panthers in one offseason.

Red Hot Cat Of The Night

Mikael Samuelsson, who has 6 points in his last 5 games played, including a goal last game.

The Canucks are going to try and sucker us in to penalties. Thats what they do, start shiat, and don't back it up. The try and frustrate other teams so that they ultimatley beat themselves.

Not my type of hockey personally.
The one problem with this is we have been taking a lot of penalties lately, which is uncharacteristic of our team. Hopefully for tomorrow and the rest of the season the boys got it out of their system and Dineen gave them a stern talking to.

I hope we win. Panther - Canucks games were always HUGE at my place in College. My roommate for a few years was the biggest Canucks fan. We would circle and underline the game at the start of the season, always big bragging rights on the line... no matter who finished better that season, it was always about the head-to-head game. I have to work tomorrow or I'd be having a drink with him watching it like old times!

Two points here would be huge since we don't play again until Friday vs. the Pens. I agree that the key here is not to take stupid penalties with the Canucks having the best PP in the league. It's not going to be easy and will take a total team effort for sure.

I wish Booth was playing as well. It was strange watching interviews of him from earlier today wearing a Canucks t-shirt. The guy had nothing but good things to say about his playing time here and said he's so glad to see the team doing well.

Hey guys. Good to see Sammy's back and playing well for you. Looking forward to seeing him.

Booth is actually medically cleared to play now. He's on the trip and theoretically could lace them up, but he's still a game time decision. He might want to get a few more practices under his belt before coming back. Sucks he got hurt when he did; he was finally hitting his stride and fitting in well after his breaking-in period.

So we should make bets on what our next trade is together should be a good game and good to see you guys in the playoff race, Sams is the guy you want in the playoff he is pretty clutch and I'm betting he'll have a big game tomorrow.

The Canucks are going to try and sucker us in to penalties. Thats what they do, start shiat, and don't back it up. The try and frustrate other teams so that they ultimatley beat themselves.

Not my type of hockey personally.
The one problem with this is we have been taking a lot of penalties lately, which is uncharacteristic of our team. Hopefully for tomorrow and the rest of the season the boys got it out of their system and Dineen gave them a stern talking to.

I hope we win. Panther - Canucks games were always HUGE at my place in College. My roommate for a few years was the biggest Canucks fan. We would circle and underline the game at the start of the season, always big bragging rights on the line... no matter who finished better that season, it was always about the head-to-head game. I have to work tomorrow or I'd be having a drink with him watching it like old times!

The Canucks do not rely on the powerplay as much as people think.

In the 8 games before they played the Bruins Saturday, the Canucks had won 6, lot 1 and lost a shootout. In that span they only had 2 PP goals.